Michelle Bachelet
Gay Star News reports:
Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet will formally introduce a bill to allow same-sex couples to get married. The measure will be introduced on 28 August.
Chilean LGBTI advocacy group the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation, has said the marriage and an adoption bill was reached as [...]

The Belfast Telegraph reports:
A high court judge in Belfast has ruled the ban on same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland is lawful. Mr. Justice O’Hara ruled on two separate cases that were heard together due to the similarities of the arguments.
Both cases were rejected by the Judge, insisting the ban did not violate the rights of LGBT [...]